Alfresco

Tutorial: Use CMDBuild webservices to connect to Alfresco

It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog. Hoping to get back to it and post more often this year!

This post is a follow-up to my old post (Connect to Alfresco from CMDBuild) and gives a short intro on using the CMDBuild web services to connect to Alfresco. The REST/SOAP endpoints provided by CMDBuild are invaluable in building additional connectors/interfaces of your own. The web services (refer here for the manual) can be used for all basic CMDBuild functions – add/update/delete cards, add/update/delete relations, and so on. CMDBuild also provides a few web services to work with card attachments (that are internally stored in Alfresco) – upload/download/delete attachments, update attachment descriptor and get attachments list.

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Connecting Alfresco DMS & CMDBuild

CMDBuild (http://www.cmdbuild.org/en) is a open-source configuration and management tool: It comprises a completely configurable web application to model and manage a database containing assets, and handle related workflow operations. CMDBuild can be used as an asset management system for any kind of assets, as it gives the administrator full flexibility over the asset model and inter-relationships between assets. CMDBuild also provides connectors to other open source components that can be used to extend the usability of the tool, and add features such as document management, automatic inventorying, external authentication, reports, workflows, GIS features, etc. Alfresco DMS can be connected to CMDBuild and used to store “attachments” for any assets defined and tracked within CMDBuild.  Refer to my earlier post here to see how to manually install Alfresco on your Tomcat server. Both Alfresco & CMDBuild can be installed on the same instance of Tomcat if needed. I have on my to-do list a set of posts on CMDBuild itself, and how to install/build/configure it. For this tutorial, we assume you have both CMDBuild and Alfresco DMS up and running already on your server. (more…)

Alfresco Community Edition 4.2 : Step-by-step manual installation

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that manages all the content within an enterprise and provides the services and controls that help manage this content.

This is an entirely Java-based application and can run on any OS that can support a JRE and the Community Edition is fully customizable/extensible as it is open-source.


Alfresco is available as an all-in-one installer (includes the core application, PostGreSQL, Tomcat, and all other bits and pieces). This is suitable for a fresh install on a new system. But if you already have a Tomcat server & a PostGRE DB running on your system, the all-in-one can complicate your installation. This tutorial shows how to install Alfresco using the packaged WAR file on an existing Tomcat installation and connect to an existing PostGreSql DB service.
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